Storbeck's

Letters, Diaries, Journals

All For The Union: The Civil War Diary And Letters Of Elisha Hunt Rhodes by Robert H. Rhodes, ed. 256 pp., paper. 1991. All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a 23-year-old lieutenant colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Excerpted on the PBS-TV series The Civil War, his accounts of those campaigns remain outstanding for thier clarity and detail. Rhodes's word reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marcches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving "all for the union." LDJ003       $13.00

Blue-Eyed Child Of Fortune: The Civil War Letters Of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw by Russell Duncan. 429 pp., bibliog., index, paper. 1992. Only two months after his marriage, twenty-six-year-old Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the Union Army's vanguard black regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, gave his life to the cause of freedom. These letters portray the young colonel in his own words, revealing a man sometimes very different from the Shaw lauded in art, poetry, and film. His frank and eloquent descriptions of his coming-of-age in upper-class Boston circles and his two years of battle vividly detail the transformation of a cosmopolitan son into a disciplined and devoted soldier. LDJ008       $17.95

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters From The Western Trails, 1840-1849 Vol. 1 by Kenneth L. Holmes, ed. 280 pp., index, paper. 1995. LDJ011       $13.00

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters From The Western Trails, 1850 Vol. 2 edited by Kenneth L. Holmes. 302 pp., index, paper. 1996. LDJ012       $13.00

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters From The Western Trails, 1852 Vol. 5 edited by Kenneth L. Holmes & David C. Duniway. 320 pp., index, paper. 1997. LDJ015       $14.00

Far From Home: Families Of The Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel, et al. 264 pp., paper. LDJ006       $15.00

In Their Own Words: Letters From Norwegian Immigrants by Solveig Zempel. 225 pp., index, paper. 1993. LDJ005       $14.95

Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman by Charles East, ed. 626 pp., index, paper. 1992. LDJ004       $17.00

A Woman's Civil War: Incidences Of The War From A Diary, With Reminiscences March 1862 by Cornelia Peake McDonald. 303 pp., index, paper. LDJ001       $18.95

Women's Diaries Of The Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel. 278 pp., paper. LDJ002       $14.00